"The whole concept of punishing people who serve immigrants is un-American," Mahony said. "If you take this to its logical, ludicrous extreme, every single person who comes up to receive Holy Communion, you have to ask them to show papers. It becomes absurd and the church is not about to get into that. The church is here to serve people…. We're not about to become immigration agents. It just throws more gasoline on the discussion and inflames people."
Update: There's a discussion of this article here.
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Mahoney is absolutely right here. While its my view that illegal immigration should be brought to a determined end, even to the extent of our erecting impenetrable barriers to prevent it or by sending back ever illegal to his country of origin, it is not the place of the Church to act as an agent for the government. The fact that the Church has been asked to report illegals rather than tend to them as human beings is absolutely unconscionable. I knew that we'd very nearly attained to the status of a dictatorship, but I hadn't realized that its steel grip had been placed on the throat of the Church in this way.
John Lowell
hmm, too bad the Cardinal hasn't shown similar resolve in supporting immigration law and the integrity of our national boundaries.
Immigration, my dear anonymous friend, is a complex, thorny, and weighty issue with no simple solution. This bill is not only not a quick fix, it would make matters worse for both citizens and aliens.
I think that most folks could agree with the good cardinal that prosecuting Christians and others who perform works of mercy for undocumented residents, is in a word, ridiculous.
It is too bad that the good Cardinal Mahoney did not show the same respect and Love to the thousands of children, and thier families, victimized by the pederast priest and the lawyers of the archdiocese.
Mahoney has no credibility.
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